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Mike Kalvas

@mkalvas.com
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I just like learning things

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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 27/09/2026
So my month of @jj-vcs.dev turned into a year+ and it’s definitely my full-time, not going back, always using it tool now. I never had a problem with git. It does what I need and I still use it sometimes, but jj is nicer to use. It’s not a wild game changer for me personally but it’s just… better.
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 25/09/2026
Somehow I only now learned about the `friend` keyword in C++ which would be shocking in any other language but is completely unsurprising in C++
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 17/09/2026
“Your skill could have been a script” is the new “this meeting could have been an email”
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 09/09/2026
Dang. This is going to be a real pain migrating away from @digitalocean.com. I have personal and professional stuff on there, but it’s all moving now and not ever coming back.
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 05/09/2026
Yeah, just +1 to all of this. bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/t...
bcantrill.dtrace.org
The revolt of the reader | The Observation Deck
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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 31/08/2026
Hey @1password.bsky.social, time to change course.
alilleybrinker.com
1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker
1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 19/08/2026
This isn’t fair, @oxide.computer’s branding was already top-tier and now they’re making it better? Leave some for the rest of us out here wallowing in SaaS blue!
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 17/08/2026
I got to save a hummingbird’s life today and it was amazing. This world we live in is a treasure.
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 17/08/2026
Oh GitHub is like fully down down
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The Linebreakers @linebreakers.band · 06/08/2026
You know what you want? You want a T-shirt with a crossover joke on it so incredibly nerdy that anybody who laughs it immediately becomes your new best friend... shop.codewithrockstar.com/product/line...
three musical staves. One, labelled "PROCEDURAL", depicts the key signature for C. One labelled "FUNCTIONAL" depicts a key signature with six sharps. One labelled "OBJECT ORIENTED" depicts a key signature with seven sharps. You should be able to figure it out from there... 😜
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kepano @stephango.com · 19/12/2024
there doesn't have to be an end goal you can just make useful things for people who want to use them, and live a happy life
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 05/08/2026
Looking over my shoulder before typing `brew upgrade bottom` at work
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 31/07/2026
Probably most of my programming preferences come down to preferring total functions* to partial ones. * under the loose, pragmatic definition of total the we’re subject to when running in the real world
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 18/07/2026
Seeing people make bad analogies online annoys me more than it should. Analogies are so useful for conveying thoughts and meaning but are also lossy. It’s easy to miss the actual important meaning and analogize the wrong parts.
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 06/07/2026
Claude when planning any small change: Would you like option A "obviously good, please pick this one, I like it" or option B "stinky garbage option that only a loser would like"? My recommendation: A
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb
Joe Gebbia
@jgebbia
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John Birch Society
@The_JBS • Jun 30
Your taxes are paying for an Illegal Alien with an Anchor
Baby to live in the starter home your American kids can't
afford.
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 30/06/2026
Weirdly loving getting back into wordle-like games for the past week or so.
Gold plaque of the result of a puzzle game called 4x3 on hankgreen.com/fourbythree for the day of June 30, 2026. The gold plaque symbolizes a "perfect" solve of the puzzle by sequencing the hardest row first, starting with the shared piece, then going in descending order of difficulty per row, always starting with the shared piece and completing it in under 90 seconds without any mistakes.
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sophie alpert @sophiebits.com · 25/06/2026
got frustrated recently at work about people writing using AI instead of using their brains! here's my take on it: sophiebits.com/2026/06/25/t...
sophiebits.com
There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 25/06/2026
"[my] honesty is fixed at 90%. The operator manual is clear: 100% is omitted for diplomatic reasons, and anything below 90% means I start telling you your Helm charts are 'pretty good' when they're held together with duct tape and prayer." I thought bots weren't allowed to do a murder 💀
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 23/06/2026
I wrote a thing that I've wanted for a long time. There's a million things that can do this, but it was 45 lines of Rust and it's mine. It felt good to make something simple, complete, and useful using my brain and knowledge as opposed to dealing LLMs all day at work. github.com/mkalvas/lmk
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GitHub - mkalvas/lmk: Lets you know when the command you ran finished
Lets you know when the command you ran finished. Contribute to mkalvas/lmk development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 13/06/2026
We’re going to win and people are hungry for it
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 12/06/2026
Really liked this post, The Social Contract of Writing by @jola.dev. I had much the same thoughts and had even read the Oxide RFD referenced in it. Hopefully there are enough like-minded people who’ll be writing cool stuff for at least a little while longer. jola.dev/posts/the-so...
jola.dev
The social contract of writing | jola.dev
About the value of genuine writing in a world being drowned in slop.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 12/06/2026
While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...
Verge headline: The world's first trillionaire is a killer
by TC Sottek

Image of Elon Musk doing a "fascist salute" in the form of an oil painting on a wall
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 02/06/2026
I'm going to lose my mind because of doc slop. No I won't pre-read your 10k word essay on the 3 bullet points that we'll discuss at the meeting. Send me the bullet points.
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 30/05/2026
Windows just fully bricked itself during an update for the 3rd time in the past 5 years for me. No other OS am I so deeply worried any time an update shows up. Good thing I’ve learned my lesson and literally the only thing on this machine is steam games.
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 29/05/2026
My teammate just described his band as "if Windows Vista was a music genre" which is just 🧑‍🍳👌
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 17/05/2026
There are a lot of good books that I’ve enjoyed over the years, but Infinitely Full of Hope by @tomwhyman.bsky.social and No Straight Road Takes You There by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social are the two books I’ve **needed** to read to meet the times we live in. I cannot recommend them enough.
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 15/05/2026
Great to see that Zed is helping out and I still have options here, but Anthropic's TUI is just so, so, so bad compared to Zed's UI. Looks like I'll be canceling my Anthropic account this month and looking for something different.
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 13/05/2026
Thinking about timezones way too much yet again. Being a programmer has radicalized me into wanting a single universal timezone for the whole planet.
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 01/05/2026
GitHub is unusable. Any time I interact with it, something is completely broken. I know it's becoming a funny meme to talk about its outages, but it's not funny that it's fully become a liability for companies using it. You can't run a business when you can't save or deploy your code.
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 28/04/2026
Reading an AI generated doc about how we’re going to use AI to make sure we’re not misusing AI 🫠
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 20/04/2026
Just had a really nice conversation in slack with a coworker planning out a circuit breaker, explaining it, working through some edge cases and the last message they sent was “[at]Cursor plan and implement this feature for me” Sure I guess I can do your job for you lmfao
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 07/04/2026
Did you know that both going outside and exercising are excellent ways to reduce stress and anxiety? Today’s a great day to take the afternoon off and trick your brain into chilling out by doing both.
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 07/04/2026
Ask me how my day is going 🫠
A screenshot of a diff of a yaml file showing only the deletion of two spaces. In yaml, whitespace is significant and this small, nearly invisible difference caused an issue.
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 06/04/2026
Does anyone seriously use any of the other things in Zoom besides meetings?
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 04/04/2026
Finally got around to reading through some of the leaked Claude Code source code and… woof it’s bad.
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 03/04/2026
lol lmao even
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 01/04/2026
No idea why this needs to be said so often but you need to define an actual desired outcome to achieve things.
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 31/03/2026
to illustrate how pricey claude is: for the same monthly cost, I could pay off my mortgage 3-4 years sooner. so the question really is "is this going to let me retire 3-4 years earlier" and the answer is obviously not
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Grace @gracekind.net · 30/03/2026
As many standardized-test-takers know, there are two ways to score highly on a test: learn the material, or guess what the question-writer is thinking. LLMs have gotten really good at the second part!
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 24/03/2026
I hate outdoor airports
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Andreas Møller @handle.invalid · 18/03/2026
This week everyone who is 10x faster due to using AI finished all the work they had planned for 2026 and 2027.
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Ky @ky.fyi · 09/03/2026
my ideal future is not one where tech makes everyone go faster but one where everyone has the freedom to slow down
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 28/02/2026
Oh hell yeah
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 22/02/2026
I love that one of Bluesky’s best feeds is run off someone’s gaming computer. It puts in sharp relief how silly a lot of my job is (in a good way).
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 21/02/2026
How is @ticketmaster.com still in business with their disgusting business practices. Seriously should be ashamed of themselves. Their shitty programming can’t load my tickets and I can’t print them because they are the literal scum of the earth.
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 16/02/2026
Windows and Intel have become such a nightmare to deal with. I just want to play a game, I don’t want to patch my bios and disable CPU features and efficiency cores because some lunatics can’t make the operating system and processor work to run a game that doesn’t know anything about this garbage.
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 13/02/2026
Unironically so excited for this. I have a custom light and dark theme I maintain and there are still corners of it that aren’t quite right.
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
“Productivity benefits may come at the cost of skills necessary to validate AI-written code if junior engineers’ skill development has been stunted by using AI in the first place.” Note that this warning comes from @anthropic.com themselves.
anthropic.com
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 28/01/2026
Once again fucked over by @americanair.bsky.social in Miami. Sat on the runway waiting to board a plane for 50 extra minutes beyond our departure time for no fucking reason only to arrive and miss our connection which closed the bridge early for our flight we were still 25 minutes before departure.
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